Chapter 42 Continue to plant this piece of garden well——Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of the publication of "Youth Literature and Art"

"Youth Literature and Art" is a field of children's literature that has been cultivated for ten years.Over the past ten years, it has provided a lot of high-quality spiritual food for our new Chinese children.In the "Selected Children's Literature" over the years, almost every literary form, such as novels, prose, poetry, fairy tales, scripts, revolutionary struggle stories, folk tales, etc., has works selected from "Youth Literature and Art".This achievement is inseparable from the efforts of editors and writers.Here, we would like to pay our infinite respect to the hardworking gardeners on this garden.

"Youth Literature and Art" has been following the editorial policy of cultivating the communist moral character of young readers and enriching their knowledge in all aspects for ten years.It provides children with works that reflect new people and new things in the socialist construction of the motherland, show the spiritual outlook of children in New China, and other works that are beneficial to children.Through such literary and artistic works, guide children to love the motherland, love the collective, and love labor, and are always ready to use their own minds and hands to contribute their greatest strength to their glorious and beautiful country.

Literature and art are the best tools for educating young children.The responsibilities of our revolutionary writers and artists are enormous.We already have a good garden of "Youth Literature and Art", let us all work hard to continue to plant this garden, let it produce more high-quality spiritual food for our successors, and help them grow quickly, Strong and lively, brave and optimistic, step up to their sacred posts!May 31, 1963 (This article was originally published in "Literary News" No. 6, 1963.)